The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-04
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in tho breviafy Of oar What, could working
mon got on without the gospel lights Of the
Convention, and free themselves In other ways
and for other aims than those Of their fathers2
What, was there not to be the least little Sep
tembricide northe smallest Dumouriez2 Such
q disregard OF revolutionary traditions and
proprieties could not be tolerated. and Deles-
clue made Il his business TO set things right"
Though the first attack on Cluseret twho, II
will be remembered, was supported BY the
Socialist members Of the 0ommune) miscar-
Red vet In the second, made on April 3d.
Delescluze and the Jscobins succeeded. Then.
after permitting Bossel to act for nine days as
Delegate for War. Delescluze reached tho goal
Of his ambition. and assumed those SUPER
visory military functions for which, as events
soon proved. no was deplorably untitled. 1t
will. Of course. DO understood that, although
Dombrowski was suffered to nominally retain
the chief command out Of doors. the real ruler
ut headauarters, and, therefore, the virtual
head Of the Commune In It's last agony. was
Delescluze. II was only q few days after he
gained supreme control that vital point In
tho Qualifications was recklessly or treacher-
ously abandoned. and Dombrowski having
failed to checkithe impour Of MaoMahon's SOL
diers at tho Trocadero. the defence Of Paris
suddenly and totally collapsed. II We except
the hopeless street fighting which continued
for some days. It was ct this fatal hour that
Cluseret, who. although released from prison,
was only q private citizen, ran to the War
Office for the purpose OF urging certain meas
ures to check tho Versaillist advance. Tho
anarchy and CONSERVATION which reigned
there were appalling. and be saw that all was
lost.
Our glimpses Of this striking book must end
with the last interview OF Cluseret with Deles-
cluze, which WAS, II we keep In view the ser
vices respectively rendered BY those two men
to the Commune and their relations to each
other one Of almost traeical interest. It took
place on tho occasion just referred to, when
tho superseded General rushed to the War De-
partment in the hope that even yet the capture
OF the city. which he had SO stoutly defended.
might be averted. or at least delayed. There
he met. as We have said. with nothing
but confusion and despair. Il found Deles-
cluse." no writes, "alone In the old yellow
room. a vast apartment contiguous to the bed
chamber. which had boon occupied by 80 many
Marshals. and lately BY the wife OF Eudes and
by Beaufort. Nothing could be moro lugubrious
than this limitless obscurity, through which
tho eye plunged under the yellow tints Of the
drapery. In corner was little table. o little
lamp, and little old man. 1t was Delescluze.
His head was buried In his hands. Bowed.
broken. collapsed. He stirred not. The carpet
deadened the sound Of my steps; his preoccu-
patton did the rest: he had not heard me- and
could contemplate for moment this human
ruin. Silent, but deeply moved. felt that
was Witnessing the last moments Of . dynasty
In very truth. had before me the last OF the
nai aasp, May Tin never know resarrection
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GUILTY. his voice ratified in his throat. You
would have said ghost Moth
where hs s the desperate plight Of the community
ouna
theless, making . great effort to remain calm
and not burst out, I said. We'll, Delescluze.
one day have to bear a heavy load Of RESPONSE
q he pas. cussrss VIVA. Is done Is aons
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easy, and 80 long as the enemy are shut OF
from the left bank. they will have accomplished
Oh. no. I said. I mean to see what's going
on He called o subordinate to give him the
necessary orders for the occupation Of the vi
prevent any misunderstanding, and resolved
not to leave till had seen the orders de-
spatched. They were never executed Some
minutes afterward Deleseluze left forever the
War Department for the Hotel de Vile, which,
in turn, he was shortly to abandon for the
death.
Senile incarnation OF the young Commune,
1t seemed that this ambulatory corpse had
only crept out of the grave to drag back with
him her that. In the bright exuberance OF vi
tally and vigor, only asked to be allowed to
I've" II. w. II.